Major Additions - Joomla for vBulletin (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - Bridge to the World's Most Popular CMS

Warning!!! An potential exploit has been found in this modification. The server that hosts vjoomla.com has been attacked several times. It is known to already be severely comprimised so at this time it is unclear whether the vulnerability lies in vJoomla, Joomla itself or the server. Until this is resolved to my satisfaction I am removing this modification. My apologies.


The modification WILL be re-released once this issue is resolved!

vJoomla is an offshoot of Joomla 1.0 that is designed to run in tandem with vbulletin. Unlike the main release it will not run without vbulletin - if you desire a CMS without a forum then use Joomla! instead. vJoomla is identical in most all regards to Joomla!

What vJoomla Does

• Provide a single session, single login interface to Joomla and vbulletin.
• Allows Joomla pages to be skinned by vbulletin's template engine.
• Maps Joomla usergroups to vbulletin usergroups.

What vJoomla Does Not Do

• It does not rewrite your templates for you - so you will need to go in currently and change relative links to images and pages to absolute links. This is most important in the style sheets and in the navbar template. This is something you need to do yourself rather than programmatically since no two sites are likely to be using the same style sheet and the same setup for these links.

Install Instructions

1. Log into your admincp
2. Close your forum
3. If your forums are at the root of your site move them elsewhere - the best location is probably /forum
4. Upload the files from the zip packages to their respective locations. There should be no overwrites.
5. Navigate to the root of your site and run the Joomla installer.
6. Go back to the admincp and install the Joomla product file
7. Now either copy the ./cpstyles, ./clientscript and ./images directory of the forum into the Joomla directory OR create symbolic links to those directories. The contents of the ./images directory of Joomla and vbulletin will need to be merged.

This is release candidate 2.

[Michael Morris]

Delete the includes/config.php part of that. Odd that it isn't doing that on Windows but it is on Unix.

[Mikhailtech]

If I do that I get these errors:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/xxx/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 60

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 62

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxx/public_html/installation/install2.php on line 62

[Luky]

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

From which beta?

Uh, the one that came out when i pmd you, on the file it says vJoomla Beta 0.2 it was when installer was released i think.

[Mikhailtech]

So RC1 is busted too eh? Why on earth would an installer link to /includes/config.php when it's looking for a forum path, not a file?

[Luky]

Originally Posted by Mikhailtech

So RC1 is busted too eh?

Try doing what i said earlier.

Goto yourdomain.com/installation/install.php and it should work? Worked for me.

[Mikhailtech]

That's not my problem. I get stuck on step 2. No matter what I put in for the forum path I either get the errors I mentioned above or "forum not found".

[Quantnet]

Michael,
Can you install some styles other than the default so we can see how different styles look ?
Thanks

[jimmywash]

Installed everything with out issues and was able to login, navigate my admincp. Logged out and then tried to login again and got the following error:

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /mnt/Target01/333535/333536/www.musicbygoat.com/web/content/login.php on line 4

Using vbulletin_3-6-7

Any suggestions??

Sweet mod btw......Love that I can take advantage of joomla addons w/ out having to learn their template system.

[WarLion]

it works like a charm i have thiis site for test only and work pretty good hanks foor this
www.warlionhosting.com/jomla
www.warlionhosting.com/jomla/foro

this is with 3.6.7 pl

remember for tha user with problems in the login you have to edit your navbar first

[Luky]

Originally Posted by Mikhailtech

That's not my problem. I get stuck on step 2. No matter what I put in for the forum path I either get the errors I mentioned above or "forum not found".

Say your username for cpanel is username and your directory for vbulletin is vb, this would be your path:
/home/username/public_html/vb
Atleast on unix, which you most likely are on.